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Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2003 04:00:42 -0700
From: Brian Dessent <brian AT dessent DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Mount Windows registry into filesystem
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Elfyn McBratney wrote:

> On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, andrew brian clegg wrote:
> 
> > Suggestion to those who know about these things: being able to go
> >
> > file /proc/registry/HKEY_CURRENT_USER/blahblahblah
> >
> > and have it return the type would be way cool. Or would that involve a
> > really ugly hack?
> 
> Kinda, 'cos `file' uses stock source (i.e. fileutils) and this would require
> changing it somewhat. It wouldn't be hard to add this as an option to regtool,
> however.

Besides, doesn't file work by reading bits of the file and inferring its
type based on content?  You would have to add specific support for it in
file (as opposed to adding entries in its database) to make an ioctl or
something.  I guess that's everyone's point, that it would pollute file
too much.

Brian

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